Wednesday, June 04, 2025

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We issue the solo and collaborative work of musician, podcaster and abstract artist
DAVID REILLY

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This is the Cloudland Blue Diary - to go to another section of the site, click on an icon
                         

DIARY

The diary is up to date, with daily entries from Sunday 5 March 2005 through to Tuesday 3 June 2025...
 (Scroll down for the latest entries)

Between those dates, 146 days are "picture only", across 5 periods in 3 of the, now, 21 years:-

2016 (3 Days): 15-17 October
2022 (85 Days): 18 April - 10 May (23); 6 July - 5 September (62)
2023 (58 Days): 21 September - 15 October (25); 18 October - 19 November (33)

It is always the intention to update "picture only" days with the relevant text but doing so is, of course, subject to opportunity (and, indeed, memory!)

CRISPYCAT RECORDINGS ON BANDCAMP
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Crispycat Recordings released the first 25 Cloudland Blue Quartet albums (recorded between 1996 and 2012) to Bandcamp in 2013.

A further 8 LPs were released between 2013 and 2019.

Then, with the advent of lockdown, David spent much more time on new Cloudland Blue Quartet works, with the result that, since May 2020, new music has been released almost every month, with almost 80 further new releases having been issued in the last five years.

The current 14 strong pipeline (see below) will take matters to April 2026, pushing the total Cloudland Blue Quartet releases available on Bandcamp to well beyond 100.

Meanwhile, retrospective releases by David's groups Creek, Crazy Wisdom and Capital Models have also been being issued by Crispycat Recordings and these are set to continue, with around 50 planned over the next 18 months or so...

In 2025, Crazy Wisdom and Capital Models have also released new recordings...

LATEST CBQ RELEASE



As always from Crispycat Recordings, entirely Free to Stream or Name Your Price (including zero) to Download

The fourth in a series of CBQ's variations on the music of Brian Eno, following on from "Variations on Brian Eno's "Music For Airports"", "Variations on Brian Eno's "Thursday Afternoon"" and "Variations on Brian Eno's "Discreet Music"", "Variations on Brian Eno's "On Land"" is a reimagining of what must surely be the ultimate ambient LP.

The download bundle includes around 3 hours and 45 minutes of bonuses, comprising the initial mixes of the material and a further "Long Slow Mix" of the album.

CURRENT CBQ RELEASE SCHEDULE

   

New Date! Friday 13 June 2025Cloudland Blue Quartet - Strand (Soundscape Piano & Synthesiser Based LP)
Friday 4 July 2025Cloudland Blue Quartet - Gould (Soundscape Composers Series LP)
Friday 1 August 2025Cloudland Blue Quartet - Variations on Fripp & Eno's "No Pussyfooting" (Soundscape Variations LP)
Friday 5 September 2025Cloudland Blue Quartet Variations on Fripp & Eno's "Evening Star" (Soundscape Variations LP)

   

Friday 3 October 2025: Cloudland Blue Quartet & Robert Scott Thompson - Forest Ascent (Collaborative Soundscape LP)
Friday 7 November 2025Cloudland Blue Quartet - Like a Sunday (Soundscape Ambient LP)
Friday 5 December 2025: Cloudland Blue Quartet - Disquietmusik IX (Soundscape Guitar Based LP)
Wednesday 24 December 2025: Cloudland Blue Quartet - Twentytwentyfive: The Originals (Compilation of 2025 Releases)

   

Wednesday 31 December 2025: Cloudland Blue Quartet - Twentytwentyfive (Compilation of Rarities recorded throughout 2025)
Friday 6 February 2026: Cloudland Blue Quartet - Shostakovich (Soundscape Composers Series LP)
Friday 3 April 2026Cloudland Blue Quartet - Dissolution VI (Soundscape Piano Based LP)
Saturday 11 April 2026 (Record Store Day)Cloudland Blue Quartet - GLAM! FOUR (RSD Special: Covers LP)

(All artwork, releases and release dates subject to change)

UPCOMING LIVE PERFORMANCES

            

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Saturday 21 June 2025, 2pm
Fopp, Shandwick Place, Edinburgh
Repertoire: Soundscape set

Capital Models - Saturday 9 August 2025, 2pm
Fopp, Shandwick Place, Edinburgh
Repertoire: A laid back set of Bowie/Roxy/Eno/Velvets covers

Performances include solo appearances, as Cloudland Blue Quartet, presenting sets of either songs or soundscapes, and group performances, with the current line up of David's 1980 new wave band, Capital Models 

At present there are no plans for his electronic improvisational quartet, Creek, to play live but a gig by vocal/electronic trio, Crazy Wisdom, is mooted for later in 2025...

PODCASTS
David produces a weekly podcast on Mixcloud, reflecting his esoteric taste in music and encouraging listeners to broaden their musical horizons.  

Since 2014, over 720 editions of the "Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection" have been recorded.  Unfortunately, only the most recent 10 are able to be made available on the Mixcloud platform.  

To obtain an MP3 download link for any currently unavailable Cloudland Blue Quartet Eclectic Selection, simply e-mail your request to crispycat@hotmail.com.  

Click on the pic to go to Mixcloud...


Tuesday, June 03, 2025

Walking over cars can be a thing to have in common...

Playlist


Up at 7...


...and working away...


Around 11:30, out, for a lunch meet with chum Luke - but some wandering beforehand...


Soundtracked by the last 750 acquisitions on Shuffleplay...




Ended up way down at the bottom of Leith Walk...


...where three items were nabbed for £1...




Back to town...

...still being soundtracked...


...and, at 1:30, bang on time, into Chaophraya with Luke...


The chat was, mostly, about work...

Top starters - Thai Tacos for Luke and Roll Gai Grob (Thai Spiced Chicken Wrap) for me...


...followed by Khao Soy Gai (Chiang Mai Curry) for Luke and Pad Prik Tai Dum (Beef Black Pepper Sauce) for me...


...and a couple of Thai lagers each...


Then, to Spoons for some cheap gin - orange gin, even - and chat about football, music (Radiohead, Yello, Coldplay), film (Lord of the Rings), walking over cars (don't ask) and living in pop stars ex-houses and walking in on your naked landlady...

Ahem...

...and then having to move flat shortly thereafter...


Chummed Luke back to the office around 4:30 or so and then soundtracked again on the bus home...



A good Tuesday...


...which ended with some listening to tracks from the above acquisitions (incl the whole of the Madeline Kelley LP) and some reasonable telly, including the end of Season 4 of "Rizzoli & Isles", from which Detective Frost was noticable by his absence...

I found out after tomorrow's episode 1 of Season 5, that the actor Lee Thompson Young, very sadly, committed suicide in August 2013 on the morning of shoot...


Bipolar diagnosis, was apparently the instigator. Sad indeed...

Highlight of the Day : Luke Lunch...

Today's New Music